Monday, September 12, 2011

Doors, doors, doors

This cool salvage place called Historic Houston unfortunately went out of business. It's quite sad for us, because it was an important resource. Most notably we got our reclaimed wood floors there:
Installation:

Post sanding:

We also bought some metal casement windows. And we went on their final weekend and got a bunch of old wood panel doors for half off (about $40 each). Which is so soooo much cheaper than anything you'd get at Home Depot or Lowes, with a whole bunch more style.

This weekend I painted (with minor patching) the door for my sewing room and we installed it last night. No photos yet though. I also got a nice antique glass knob set from another architectural antiques place in Houston.

And my husband worked on installing new closet doors. Using plain 6 panel doors as bypass doors. For this we did go with the Lowes cheapie because they are really lightweight and well suited for slide.
A photo below (side note this room is not peach, a color I despise, but rather it's orange).



This morning I found this picture and want to do something like this to replace the crapped out louvred door that covers our water heater in the kitchen. The adjacent washer/dryer don't even have a door at this point. I think it would work well!

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